Word: exportability
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CHEMICALS. When domestic demand evaporated last winter, factory output was freed for export...
...industrial capacity. Through a monopoly of necessary technology and an almost exclusive hold on available funds for investment, businessmen in the industrialized nations are able to corner markets in the Third World and thus prevent local competition. To obtain funds for purchasing finished products, developing nations are forced to export natural resources which have no local enterprises to use them...
...legislative machinery in more disciplined order, Democrats hope to pass a spate of bills that have been bottled up or ignored: mandatory wage-price controls, national health insurance, a major public works program to relieve unemployment, tax reform including a scaling down of the oil-depletion allowance, an export monitoring system that will more effectively prevent the sale abroad of commodities in short supply at home, and the revival of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, an agency created by President Herbert Hoover in 1932 to help business survive the Depression...
...cent of the 1974 deliveries under P.L. 480--otherwise known somewhat euphemistically as the Food for Peace program--went to only two countries, South Vietnam and Cambodia, where much of the money was used for military purposes. He also did not mention that the program was used to export massive amounts of tobacco, at the insistence of congressmen from tobacco-producing states...
...really know what level of food supplies we need. If we do not know what we need, we do not know how much we should plan to produce; if we don't know what we need, we don't know how much food we can safely export. And if we don't know how much we can safely export, we cannot say at what level we should practice export restraints. But we do know that we must do what we can to feed hungry people at a time of crisis...